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in '.3 r I cr, cf i-3 thcs cf curf-irf.d r...i who be.r names derived :rc.ti i Gcri.iia t.:wu?,nl c'.l Li r.i l:rn vhitis the signification cf their various aprellations; a piece of information, which unless specially given to philological studies, they are net likely to acquire.' Those over whom the words -Adelaide or Adeline have been pronounced at the fount, are ctymologicslly speaking, princesses, such being the interpretation of these German erms. They are beautiful names. Ifthe preceding names be of regal strain, Alice or Alicia is of the peerage, signify irignollc; and a sweet name it is for the brida of baron or burgess. Amelia changed into Emily or Amy, is of the French origin and has the meaning of beloved. Amy Hols art rises at once to the mind in its search for individuals who have graced these appellations. It would be almost a relief to the feelings to think the gad story of Amy Robs art a fiction, but almost all oar historians admit that her death was occasioned by a fall from a stair case.the result of a cruel plot on the part of her ambitious husband. Julius Micle's ballad beginning thus beautifully "The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Eilver'd the walla of Cumnor hall, And many an oak that grew thereby," amply shows the general belief of the people dwelling in the neighborhood of the scene of the tragedy. So that Amy is justly to be held as a name hallowed by beauty and misfortune. Blanche is one of the loveliest female names, It is from the French, and signifies whhc or fair, which is also the meaning of Bianca,Xhe. ltalian,forci of Blanche. It would be decidedly a pleasure to the ear to have such a name as Blanche in more common use, and we would hint to fair womankind that it is a matter of no light importance to them, to bear agreeable names of this sort. Men may not ah solutely marry on the bare score of name, yet it must be no trilling pleasure to have it in one's power to sound such a name as Blanche in the chamber or lobby cf one's wedded home, when any matter required the joint conjugal consideration. Bridget is one of the few Irish names in use among us. It signifies Iright or shining bright, and is a very decent name of the Decoran order, applicable with much propriety, to good old house-keepers or buxom dairymaids. Charlotte is the feminine of Charles and has the same meaning of that formerly mentioned, valiant-spirited, or prevailing, which last character is applicable, wa have no doubt, to many fair Charlottes, wedded. Charlotte Cord ay, a young Judith, who freed her country from a worse than Holofernes, did not dishonor to this name, Caroline, alsods j a feminine form of the word Charles, or; rather oits Latinised shape, Carolus,and has the same signification, of course, as Charlotte. Both of these are ccrnma tel. male names, and are not undeserving of being so. Edilh and Elenor are from the Saxon, and signify respectively happy, and all fruitful. The original form cf Edith was Ediiha or Eaie, and aversion of the name, nearly the same as the latter cf these, was the baptismal appellation of "Ada, sole daughter of my h-jua e and heart.' Ersma is generally understood to be from the German word signifying a nursi, or a good nurse. lama was the. form in which the name was borne by Charlemsgne's daughter, a lady who dis-r-gu;:.-.e.l nt;i by a remarkable pre ;f cl t 'f.:i f - ! ;r 1 , r LV-r.hsri, this L' --,i;:-:.-:y. This C.lzLz 1 r -lr, r-idr-: :jlor.-.C;t cpjrdy, en t:cvr.t c; l!"ic r:.':v9 ; -; - - . j cfCe hver's '" l" a" c $ ttl ti.-3 piulc : . ; ' 3 ; I 1; Wh'l 3 ' . :y ;. ; 3 t " a t- -..'.:r c.ii r.''.t, a Lll tf i', r.r c V. 3'. J . tl:y .:.. rr-.-t j!- . s 7 : . 1. , ...... .a - c : ) i : r. " 1 ! ,T3 L 11 :3 v . ...

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le: course. lis gave the hasdef Intrna tojher love. Such is the story of the first person in history whom we find to bear tha name cf Irr.ma or Lmma. Frances is a very agreeable name, the feminine of Francis, end has the like meaning of frank or free. Gertrude, also from the German, signifies all truth. Gertrude must ever be associated in our minds with the image of young, gentle, beauteous, trusting woman, because such was the character of her of Wyoming, who was , "The love of Pennsylvania's shore." Harriet and Henrietta, ' since Henry, the corresponding male name, signifies rich lord, may be held to signify rich lady, a meaning not unworthy of the names. Magdalena la from the Syriae, (some say Hebrew,) and has the sense of magnificent. Around this name, circumstances, that oblivion cannot touch, have thrown sad, yet sweet recollections. Its more common form is Madelina or Madeline, than which, nothing can be more pleasant to the ear or eye. Melicent or Milicent, is a name as sweet as honey, and honey-sweet is indeed its interpretation in the French tongue. Even in the contracted state of Milty, there is a degree of mellifluousness about the term. Rosabella might be adopted into familiar family use with much propriety. It is immediately from the Italian Rosabella, which signifies a fair rose. Tabitha is a name which was not once uncommon in Britain, but somehow or other ithas been assigned over from the human to the feline race. Tabby is a cat, and nothing but a cat, The term is from the Syriac, and signifies a Roc, a very different animal, indeed, from puss. The famous sister of Mathew Bramble, m Emollet's Humphrey Clinker, did much to make old niaid3 shar with puss in the use of Tabitha in all' time coming. In the same novel occurs the name of Winifred, which signifies W in ning Peace. Dutch Ersglislt. A Dutchman was brought before the mayor of Philadelphia recently, on complaint of a dry goods man, for stealing a piece of corduroy valued at Si 1, when, according to the Pennsjdvanian, the following amusing examination took place: Mayor Do you fuslay English, Feltzger? Prisoner Yaw, I talks him foost rate. ?.I Do you know what "steal' means? P Yaw, him is iron what is made hard. M that is one kind ot steel, but noi. what I mean. Do you understand this how came you to steal that corduroy? P. Because mine preeches was nicks goot; I have nothing fit to go to church. 1. Does it take thirty yards of stuff to make you a pair of breeches? P. Yaw, de Schneider must have some for cabbage, and toder what's left might do for me in frau ven I get married. Dat will make her a pretty cote. M. I see you are a man of foresight, but don't you know that this way of getting breeches and petticoats is against the law? P. I nicks" cares a tarn spout ter law. I wasn't horned upon ter Yankee law. Fee a Tutchrnan. II. Have you got any friend that will bail you? - P. Plenty cf friends, and more dan I suppose you will want; they come and schwear anyiirjg. Dey schwear where I was and git ma clear. 11. We don't want them to swear, we want them to give security for your apr:. -ranee tt Court. You confess you tl-23 the ccrdaroy, and there is no occaLr e..- body to swear it. I ;l t.. t. 1 a u . :r : : r. cv. c uo (1- tot 1 a . ?. 1 c In .i 1 I -t I !- .v mI. .ri I -t.ij ! " t -i . . 1 . Ca rcsdh; S i .j r 1 T r It): i I

tt HS. BISASS. Toung Ces&fciacea, a boy cboat thirteen years old, son to the admiral of the Orient, remained at bi post (in tho battle of tte Kile,) in accordance willj tlia comtnniI of liis father, After the eh;p had ta'scn lire and tXl the guns

hasi I rou al'andoneri; and. ptarisfteJ la tna explosion of the vwscJ.liy powder, father having been killed i tlie Brst part of tlie ernsnient, toe order was not recalled. The hoy stood on the burning decli, Whence til but hi in bad fled; TKe flante that lit the battle's wreck, ' Shone round him o'er the dead. . Yet beautiful and bright he stood, " As born to tuie the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though chiid-like form. The flames roll'd on he would not go. Without his father's word; That father, faint in death btlow, Kisvoise no longer heard. He cail'd aloud 'Say, father, jtay , If yet my task is done?' He knew not that the chieftain lay Uneoncious of his son. 'Speak, father!' once again he cried, If I may yet be gone!' And but the booming shots replied, A nd fast the Games roll'd on . Upon his brow he felt their breath, And In his waving hair; And look'd from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair And shouted hut once more aloud,, 'Sly father! must I stay? While o'er him fast through sail and ihroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendor wild, T'aey caught the flag on high, And stream'd above the gallant child, ' Like banners in the sky. There cane a burst of thunder sound The boy oh! where is he? Ask of the winds that far eround With fragments slrow the seal OCT A local' of the Locomotive, (Indianapolis,) furnishes that paper with the following: Deah Locomotive. The joke that came off this morning is too good to let 'pass without notice. ' 1 noticed a young hoosier on Washington street, entering several establishments hastily, the causa cf which I did not learn until I went down to the Depot, where I saw the same chap enter the ticket olnce, when the following dialogue occurred. Hoosier. Wall, I declare, I travelled this darned town all Over hunting sum tickets, and couldent find it til jist now! Proprietor. Well. IIoo. You sell tickets here, do you? Pro. Yres sir. IIoo. What's the price for one? Pro. Owing to the distance. Where do you want to go? IIoo.' Where to! where do you think? To the circus, of course. Pro. About a quarter. j IIoo.- I am bound not to be cheated out of my seat this time, nor I dont like this scrougirjg, no how, so I concluded to come here to buy my ticket this time, so I can git in the fust one, and set right next to the band. The proprietor, who by this time read the green one perfectly, handed him one of his own make, (for the circus.) The Hoosier very thankfully throwed down a quarter, and started out, when the ticket man called to the chap, holding the quarter in his hand. Yrou said a quarter, didn't you? Yes, but. I'll not charge you anything for that, as there is no circus - here now. I dont care a dam replied tha hoosier, ' and made for the door. L. R. S. That's jest what I say, said Urs. Partington, and every ear listened to hear what it was. She was reading to herself that 'man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' That's jest what I say. It means that ihey were born to great aeai more tr . i ' . r ... .. .'. t must say that my poor dear Paul was but little; end was so handy round the house could we vi pcnVcos, pc:rirgion3,te:id t' j c' "h r. I dj i.iany ether Ay, 1 o was on s a - a t' '! ty i. : uldn't co c- t. t .; b:"-.t cn a parert. ..1 c ht r. d vi.h c Oh! 1 do Ij , tlhCy m a knly " dc u, a 3 r eI.tn - -V n' - r3 , :: I I -

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A your g L - -y.T .. 'f ;t practised sjtw.i-t -Mr j 1 ' , 'I am at it 0 . y tnji Mat!f cn leaping out cf tz 1 I cj'iu-.t ; y c'. .Lr into the eotri. I til tVt cl i j -.r.rct cf father's before tue glass, and there's mv lord staring ma full in the face.' On my right, I establish a row of boots those are tho gentlemen of the jury; on my left is the cup-board of witness-bos, while on the cane-bottom chairs before me are seated a lot of my learned friends. ' 'Well, I conceive the case opened. It's an action for anything say, for breach of promise and then I begin. If I'm for the plaintiff, of course, I pile up the pathetic. If for the defendant, I reduce the thing at once to a mere baggaielle. For tha plaintiff, I' describe in tones and strains which bring tears into tha eyes of the row of boots I mean the intelligent O gentlemen of tha jury how firmly, how fondly, how passionately ehe loved the recreant, base, and black-hearted defsn dant. If for him, I transfer her affection to his pocket, and undertake to show that she never loved him at all. And I'm as likely to be right in the one case as the other, for how can I tell whether she loved him cr not. 'In a case of this kind, however, give me the plaintiff. I see a tear starting in every eye, I hear the ladies sighing' and sobbing around me and while the intelligent men of the jury are blowing their noses with unexampled violence, lest it should be thought that they could shed a tear, I behold the Judge working his facial muscles and screwing up hi3 mouth into all sorts of shapes, as if from the depth of his emotion would say I'll tell ton what it is, I can't stand th;3 much longer.' . The Washing Fluid The Seciiet out. The papers are said to be advertising a wonderful secret in the way of a laborsaving mixture for washing cloths. A remittance of one dollar insures a return of recipe. The Liverpool Standard enables us to furnish the secret at a much cheaper rate, for home manufacture. The Standard says: "A correspondent who calls mmse-Ii the "washerwoman's friend," writes: 'There is now a washing liquid sold in Sheffield at the most extortionate price beautifully labelled, but, for the benefit of the washerwomen, who are the Qcscrvmg poor, we will impart tne wonderful secret which lias been obtained from head-quarters, viz: one lb. of soda, quarter lb. lime, hah lb. soap. 1 he soda and -soap arc boiled together, and the linto alone, in tho two quarts of. water; and then after being boiled, are used as" required. This rec'pc can be as well "manufactured' by a poor washerwoman as by a scientific chemist." , The Greenock AdvV. makes it mere plain. - Thus: . Dissolve quarter lb. of lime in boiling water, straining through a flannel bag; dissolve separately; quarter llx brown soap and a .lb., of soda, boil tho three together. Put six gallons of water into the bailer, and when belling add the mixture. Tho linens" which must have been steeped in cold water for 12 hours, are wrung out and stains rubbed with soap and put into the boibr, where they must boil lor Ibrty-livo minutes. They are (lien drawn (tho liquid being preserved, as it can be used three t::sc) v.ccd in nr.;! . end clear Lc; ,r. v,at:r retired over them. Hub them out, - o t: - ut Kuni, uiiu i;iU O U ier t..-yn:-. Ly th: , pcc. .:s, t: tlthds jf the cr.".::: rv lei er il 15 ed; b'.eecl ir die::::::.:d v.itn c.:: rc.v it-, e. . . r, and t! . . n et ei es t..e r 1 "... 3

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ie ,a .1 !..l',l 'V.Tt?. , a.i- i s cf Use cror:, we wi el 1 "r. 'Ui'te ' ; : "t, 1 to t e rs ' ''-:! - ' n Jl i. m are lu, , ar i f. ie t tjv-y. Whore re the orro, the to young flon-cra, to toc!y r-ruj! and f'iv,d fit brighter luht and softer air, a teeutetras slster!::si? Alas! they .U are In Ihelr craves. Use gesiU rase cf flowers Are ly big ia their lowly bU, with tie fkir acd pood ef . ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but cold Xovembcr rain Call not, from cut the gloomy earth, the kmcty one a, ah;. The wind-Sower and the vio'et, Ihey peririi'J long efs. And tiie wild rose and tlie orchis died amid tte maimer plow; r.ut on the isil! Utecolden-ra-J, and "the &r. in the wood. And the yellow lun-tiowcr ly the l-rooi in autumn, beauty stood, Til! fell the froxf from the clear, cold heaven, a fills 'lie plague on wen, And the hrishinfss of their rniile was gone from upland. gla.lc and glen. 1 And now, when conx-s .he ealm, mild day, j etlli sucii dsys will eome. To eM toe squirrel aoid t'i tee from out their .winter Lome, When the sound cf dropping nuU u beard, though ail , the trees are tslill. And twinkle in the smoky lzut of tha waters of the rill. The south wind starches for the Cowers whose fragrance late he bore. And sihs to Cud them in the wood and by tie itreaai "v.o more. And than I think of one who la her youthful beauty died. The fair, meek blossom that grew cp and failed 5y cy side: In tlie cold moigt earth we laid her when the forest east the leaf. And we wept that one so lovely should have a !.: k lirirf; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, lite that young friend of ours. So gent!e and so beautiful, should perish with tie flow ers. EBtiXT. The Last Pinch. A clergymen attended a culprit on the scaffold, after the usual prayer, he asked as a matter of course: And now, ere I bid you farewell, is there any thing I can do for you, my poor soul?' Y"es sir, answered the pinioned one eagerly, 'you can be of the greatest comfort to tne: just put your hand In my waistcoat pocket, you will find a paper of snu.f, do open it, and give me a pinch. I cant help myself. I'd do so much, for you, if you was in my situation, and I shall feel obliged to you as long &3 I live. The ffood divine vexed not a parting soul by saying about the sin and folly of such a request at such a moment, nor the unfitness cf the office proposed forcse of his cloth. He administers i this consolation, and as he retired, heard the condemned sinner exclaimNow I'm happy. A moment more, -and, as the newspa pers say, and he was launched into eternity. Truly the ruling passion is strong in death. Qztr An Irishman who had blistered his lingers in endeavoring to craw on a new pair cf boots, exclaimed, 'by St. Patrick! I believe I shall niver get them on till I wear them a dav cr two.' Cost of soceeziks a lady's Hand. A man in Pittsburg has been fined by the Mayor Si G2, fcr squeezing a young lady's hand. We heard of a girl the "Other day, after giving her lover a hearty smack, exclaimed: "Dog my Cat! if you h&int been taken a little rye, old boss!' "'This is really the smallest horse I ever saw, said a countryman, on viewing a Shetland pony. 'Indade now,' replied his Irish coinp an ion, 'bt. m I've seen one as small as two of him. Fa I'ccle. " I say, boy, whose hens is that you're ril'.- :? ita daddv'i i.o is your uauuyf TV,,, 1,,,. 1 ...1 1 j u nUQ n 1 Jzz.s. Co, you era the r;n V."hv-, yes, c.'.-. J.t. dil v t t3 I ? a v,il r..:,.,..:r,i ii :, C"t s. Lcvs.A 1 r . '. ' : . i 1 ;i; ; 1 I . .' : l . by, tz.z".i rets 3

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